R12 - Report showing Junk Characters

Hi
We developed report in English and when we copy and run in R12 it is giving the output in different language like Russian.
I checked the parameters Etcc.. all shows with English.
But when we copy the contents from report (pdf) to notepad it converts to English. Also if I change the font to courier size 10 it works but if we change the font size to 12 again it shows junk.
Can any one faced this type of issue, any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance.

Hi,
Please see if the following helps
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